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Re: WAY OFF TOPIC: GET TIME TRAVELLERS WIFE NOW!!!



warren is right about THE TIME TRAVELLERS WIFE.
it's just beautiful!

warren may be right about cryptonomicon, but concerning diamond age i 
still am of the opinion that stephenson has managed to do gain position 
of "jules verne of our time".

tilmann


Warren Sirota schrieb:
> im(extremely minority)o, Stephenson can't write characters to save his 
> life and i find his books deadly boring (ok, let me be specific and 
> indulge my passion for exaggeration a little less: 250 slow pages into 
> Cryptonomicon or whatever he called it, i realized that every single 
> person in the book was the identical blend of system analyst and amateur 
> sleuth/reflexive information hider that i have to work with in corporate 
> life every day, just with different circumstances. i couldn't find a 
> spec of character in any of them, and i couldn't go on reading).
> 
> and, sorry to those who've seen this recommendation before, but the best 
> SF book, or any book, that i've read in the past 5 years was "The Time 
> Traveler's Wife"
> 
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Christophe <cburke55@comcast.net 
> <mailto:cburke55@comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
>     You can skip, "Zodiac", though.  It was his first and most
>     definitely not in the same league as his later books.
> 
>     And don't forget William Gibson!  Try "Idoru".
> 
>     Chris
> 
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: "mark francombe" <mark@markfrancombe.com
>     <mailto:mark@markfrancombe.com>>
>     To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>     <mailto:Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>     Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 6:14:55 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>     Subject: Re: WAY OFF TOPIC: recommendations for great science
>     fiction written  in the last 10 years?
> 
>     DEFINATELY the Diamond Age, or from the same author Snow Crash.
> 
>     What Neil Stevendon does is present you with a world for a bit (
>     Nano technology works, in Diamond Age, or Everyone has a second
>     virtual life in Snow Crash) and then gives you a run of the mill
>     exiting rollacoaster of a novel, based on those presumptions.. LOVE
>     HIM... < br>
>     I just read Anathem, his latest, also genius, but a bit long and
>     heavy for a "trip book"..
> 
>     Of the 3 .. Diamond Age, lots of cool stuff.. changed the way I
>     think about e-learning (my day-job) as a matter of fact...
> 
>     enjoy
> 
>     M
> 
>     PS:
>     but surely.. all planes have SO MUCH inflight fun... catch up on all
>     them films you missed... play Super Mario... Or my favorite... (but
>     expensive) use the seat-back phone to call a random seat for a 
>chat!!!
> 
> 
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